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links, etc The Love Machine | Julia Elliott | Granta bigly amusing short story about a robot’s need for lovin'

links, etc cleaning out some reading backlog. stuff worth pointing at more broadly. Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 - media.ccc.de open WiFi implmentation and some interesting learnings. The Walmart Effect - The Atlantic well, at least there’s the math now. 77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024 one of the best lists i’ve seen in a bit, there are some bangers in here. What All of the Markings on SD microSD and microSDXC Cards Mean...

links, etc Not My Problem | NOEMA when you ask the AI, to riff on what the AI means for art, you’re going to get some interesting responses.

TIL - that docker for mac doesn’t allow you to access the GPUs that you have on your mac running apple Si. this is annoying, it means that i need to run ollama with some wrappers, which isn’t the end of the world, but a bit more hassle than i was looking for. misc. notes in no particular order default ollama port 11434 making it such that i can connect to this from off localhost (i....

somehow i got pointed at this thing and, like a fool, i couldn’t look away … prompt: He was successful, attractive and charming but he’d learnt that people of that age always had secrets. … and go! … this was most certainly the case for chaz. chaz was brought up in the boomer generation and while he’d been fortunate enough to accumulate a small amount of personal wealth, there were clearly some “unaccounted for” expenditures....